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White Double of the Second Class FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL the Greeks have celebrated the feast of St. Joachim on the day following our Lady’s birthday. The Maronites kept it on the day after the Presentation in November, and the Armenians on the Tuesday after the Octave of the Assumption of the Mother of God. The Latins at first did not keep his feast. Later on it was admitted and celebrated sometimes on the day after the Octave of the Nativity, September 16th, sometimes on the day following the Conception of the Blessed Virgin, December 9th. Thus both East and...

France Finds Potential Terror Accomplice in Handcuffs in Bulgaria(caption under photo on page: French citizen Fritz-Joly Joachin, 29, sits inside the courtroom before his trial in the town of Haskovo, Bulgaria, Jan. 12, 2015. ) Fritz-Joly Joachim, 29, was nabbed by Bulgarian authorities in the early morning on New Year's Day on a European arrest warrant for allegedly kidnapping his three-year-old son and trying to take him eventually into Syria, according to Darina Slavova, a prosecutor in the southern Bulgarian city of Haskovo. But Slavova told ABC News today that Bulgarian authorities received another European arrest warrant Monday alleging...

Yesterday, on 16 August, a memorial of St. Roch is observed in some place. Any Italian man or a man of Italian descent who is named Rocco has this saint as their patron. The following is the "legend" and collect for St. Roch from the supplement to the traditional Roman Breviary, as reprinted in Dom Guéranger's The Liturgical Year St. Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague Striken By Jacques-Louis David Roch was born at Montpellier [France]. He showed his great love for his neighbour, when cruel pestilence ravaged the length and breadth of Italy; leaving his native country,...

The Protoevangelium of JamesThe Birth of Mary the Holy Mother of God,and Very Glorious Mother of Jesus ChristIN THE RECORDS OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL was Joachim, a man rich exceedingly; and he brought his offerings double, saying: There shall be of my superabundance to all the people, and there shall be the offering for my forgiveness to the Lord for a propitiation for me. For the great day of the Lord was at hand, and the sons of Israel were bringing their offerings. And there stood over against him Rubim, saying: It is not meet for thee first...

July 26, 2004 Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Psalm: Monday 33 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IJer 13:1-11 The LORD said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water. I bought the loincloth, as the LORD commanded, and put it on. A second time the word of the LORD came to me thus: Take the loincloth which you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Parath; there hide it in a cleft of the rock. Obedient to...